03681nam 2200649Ia 450 991096733120332120200520144314.0978143842533714384253339781441608697144160869910.1515/9781438425337(CKB)1000000000755966(OCoLC)320967720(CaPaEBR)ebrary10588786(SSID)ssj0000153010(PQKBManifestationID)12046371(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000153010(PQKBWorkID)10393185(PQKB)11363469(MiAaPQ)EBC3408236(Au-PeEL)EBL3408236(CaPaEBR)ebr10588786(DE-B1597)683338(DE-B1597)9781438425337(Perlego)2671597(EXLCZ)99100000000075596620080627d2009 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFairy tales a new history /Ruth B. Bottigheimer1st ed.Albany, N.Y. Excelsior Editions/State University of New York Pressc20091 online resource (vii, 152 pages)Excelsior EditionsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9781438425238 1438425236 Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-144) and index.Why a new history of fairy tales? -- Two accounts of the Grimm's tales : the folk as creator, the book as source -- The late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century layers : Perrault, Lhéritier, and their successors -- The two inventors of fairy tale tradition : Giambattista Basile (1634-1636) and Giovan Francesco Straparola (1551, 1553) -- A new history.This work overturns traditional views of the origins of fairy tales and documents their actual origins and transmission. Where did Cinderella come from? Puss in Boots? Rapunzel? The origins of fairy tales are looked at in a new way in these highly engaging pages. Conventional wisdom holds that fairy tales originated in the oral traditions of peasants and were recorded for posterity by the Brothers Grimm during the nineteenth century. The author overturns this view in this account of the origins of these well loved stories. Charles Perrault created Cinderella and her fairy godmother, but no countrywoman whispered this tale into Perrault's ear. Instead, his Cinderella appeared only after he had edited it from the book of often amoral tales published by Giambattista Basile in Naples. Distinguishing fairy tales from folktales and showing the influence of the medieval romance on them, the author documents how fairy tales originated as urban writing for urban readers and listeners. Working backward from the Grimms to the earliest known sixteenth-century fairy tales of the Italian Renaissance, she argues for a book based history of fairy tales. The first new approach to fairy tale history in decades, this book answers questions about where fairy tales came from and how they spread, illuminating a narrative process long veiled by surmise and assumption.Fairy talesHistory and criticismFolk lliteratureHistory and criticismFairy talesHistory and criticism.Folk lliteratureHistory and criticism.398.209Bottigheimer Ruth B1806059MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910967331203321Fairy tales4365654UNINA